Where can I get it or something that works like it (Photoshop CS3 Contribute app)?

[stuny]

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Just before our post-retirement move my desktop computer crashed, and I thought I had everything I needed backed-up.  However, with the move  my old Photoshop CS3 disc was nowhere to be found, and never turned up several months later.  All I use from CS3 is the Contribute app, to create new text pages and edit existing text pages on our site (www.barbara-and-stu.com).  I spoke directly with a number of Adobe people just to learn that since they stopped supporting CS3 some time ago there are no copies to be had.  I asked if they had something else I could use to replace Contribute, and each tried to sell me something that they eventually admitted could not do what I wanted it to do.

Does anyone know where a new-old stock CS3 might be so I can buy it, or if not that, where I can find a substitute for Contribute?

[jaapv]

https://www.adobe.com/support/contribute/downloads.html ?

 

[stuny]

Thank you.  I hope this will work since it might require having my earlier s/w on my machine.

[stuny]

Jaap -

Thank you.  Unfortunately, that didn't work.

[jaapv]

Pity...

[roydonian]

If you have lost the original disk, does that mean that you no longer have the serial number that you'd need to reinstall the software? Assuming that you had registered the product, Adobe might have a record of your serial number. You can find downloadable trial versions of the CS3 on the internet,   but I don't know if the company still maintains an activation service for CS3.

[stuny]

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Roy -

Thank you for your comment.  If I am to believe the Internet, Adobe turned off their CS3 serial number validation server about a year ago.

[Anbaric]

On 4/1/2022 at 1:36 PM, stuny said:

Roy -

Thank you for your comment.  If I am to believe the Internet, Adobe turned off their CS3 serial number validation server about a year ago.

Unfortunately the Internet is correct. Even if you have the original set of CDs complete with serial numbers, you can no longer activate CS3 in the normal way (I assume this includes Contribute). The only exception is if you have access to the (largely unadvertised) special CS3 installers and serial numbers that Adobe quietly and briefly made available to licensed users after they switched off the servers. These installers don't require online activation, but Adobe no longer provides them.

Special activation-free installers for the earlier CS2 package were made more generally available by Adobe, and can still be found on the Wayback Machine mirror of the Adobe site, but it looks like Contribute wasn't part of CS2:

http://web.archive.org/web/20140921074844/http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/cs2-product-downloads.html

Since the equivalent CS3 activation-free installers weren't directly published on the public web, any supposed downloads of them are of dubious provenance.

Edited April 19, 2022 by Anbaric

[stuny]

Thank you, Anbaric.